The Current Status of Traumatic Diaphragmatic Injury: Lessons Learned From 105 Patients Over 13 Years

BACKGROUND: Our understanding of traumatic diaphragmatic injury (TDI) is based primarily on outdated retrospective series. We sought to reexamine present day patterns of diagnosis, associated injuries, predictors of mortality, and long-term outcomes of this condition. METHODS: A prospectively entered trauma database from the Montréal General Hospital was reviewed for patients admitted with a TDI from 1993 to 2006. Hospital charts were reviewed, …